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I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. I would say it's one of the few languages other than Perl that can be considered "write optimized". Ruby ma

I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. I would say it's one of the few languages other than Perl that can be considered "write optimized". Ruby makes it very very easy to just write code that just works. Just, a lot of code later you have huge monstrosity of rot that's almost impossible to maintain; I think that happens with all large codebases, Ruby just gets there faster.

rlue 8y ago
> I definitely see Ruby as Perl's spiritual successor. Matz has said this himself: * "I chose the name of the language from the jewel name, influenced by Perl. Although I named Ruby rather by coincidence, I later realized that ruby comes right after pearl in several situations, including birthstones (pearl for June, ruby for July) and font sizes (Perl is 5-point, Ruby is 5.5-point). I thought that it only made sense to use Ruby as a name for a scripting language that was newer (and, hopefully, better) than Perl." (https://lingualeo.com/tr/jungle/231625 https://lingualeo.com/tr/jungle/231625) * "Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually." (https://www.artima.com/intv/ruby3.html https://www.artima.com/intv/ruby3.html)
petre 8y ago
You have a huge monstrosity if you or someone on your team is sloppy. I guess you’ve never seen a Drupal or Joomla codebase before. Or JavaScript projects that pull a myriad of junk dependencies. We have a Perl codebase which is actually quite clean. Mojolicious also helps a lot to keep it nice and tidy.